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Tuesday, 29 November 2011

After the roof went on what happened, a week of rain, so
close to not having to worry about rain but so far,

One thing I did get a chance to do was to check the roof for
leaks, I didn't expect to find any but it was raining and not much else was going on, I noticed that before the ridge cap went on
the roofing guys had turned up the valley edges, a very important step for a Colourbond
roof, wind can force water up the
valleys and into the house if they miss this step. It's a relief when a large step such as the roof gets done without any problems.

I also got another chance to see where we could
put the Crocodiles down the side of the house,
or where the drainage problems will be when we move in.

Wednesday, 23 November 2011

For some one that has had more than a few rain delays this is good...... and bad
If only it would stop raining the brickies could fix the draft coming from the laundry wall not being completed and whoever does the eaves can get on and finish so the inside work can begin

Monday, 14 November 2011

Looks like Stockland played some cards close to their chest when signing people up at Glenmore Ridge, who would have thought in todays modern age that you have to ASK if there will be phone lines available when you move in.
Looks to me like Stockland are to cheap to run the infrastructure needed (some might say basic) instead they sign people up to new houses in a new estate without phone lines while waiting for the NBN to lay the fibre, catch up with some of the heated debates and reasons whyhttp://drewandrenee.blogspot.com/ourhouse theovingtons

Thursday, 10 November 2011

Wednesday the brickies ran out of bricks, I was expecting early next week before we could get some more, but a drive past today found bricks had already been delivered.

I think it's better to not ask where they came from.......

I have also managed to draw together our timeline, it's on a page of its own, being able to take pictures everyday and the email trail helped fill in the gaps, at least now I know why it feels like forever since we started.

Some pictures of the front all bricked up including the garage

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The small piers will have wooden posts attached, the plain bricks will be rendered

Sunday, 6 November 2011

Hi All,
This introduction to the building blog is a little behind. We are due to finish the brickwork next week so we have a lot of information to be backdated, and we have had some good and bad moments, from our little building adventure.
We our building a modified McDonald Jones Beach House Grange with a rear Home Theatre, which is funny because one of the first changes we made was to move the Rear Home Theatre.
Below is the original plan from the MacDonald Jones Website, I noticed that they have a few more designs that address one of the problems with this design, (you had to go through the home theatre to get to the laundry)

Above is our final design we have views of the mountains from our back yard which is why our living areas are at the back and we extended the alfresco to wrap aroud the back. We are building a dream house to grow old in so some might say went a bit overboard on the extras, lots of upgrades, over the rest of our build I will try to add in some of the bits that were missing from the start,